It was a tighter, more suspenseful novel than he would later specialize in, with his sprawling classics such as Pillars of the Earth stretching to 1,000 pages or more. It was first published in 1979, and a friend recommended it to me around that time. The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett was not the authors first novel, but it was his first commercially successful one, beginning a long and illustrious career. But he hasn’t planned for a storm-battered island and the remarkable young woman who lives there. A Deadly Chase Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, The Needle ruthlessly races to a U-boat waiting to convey him and his critical message to Germany, with MI5 on his tail. In England he uncovers the Allies’ D-Day plans but his cover is blown in the process. He is Hitler’s prize undercover agent – a ruthless and professional murderer. A Cold-Blooded Killer His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle. If they can land a force on mainland Europe they will gain the upper hand in a war that has ravaged the world for years, and take the fight to the Nazi menace.
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